Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does cohabitation really make divorce more likely? Or are the people who cohabit simply the same sort of people who tend to divorce? A devoutly Roman Catholic couple, for example, might skip living together and go straight into a long-running marriage, while a couple who at the outset are doubtful of marriage might live together first before trying a marriage that fails. "It is inappropriate and simplistic to treat cohabitation as the major factor affecting divorce," says Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "The trend in divorce stretches back over the last hundred years, so clearly...
...doctors had told him to skip St. Louis; and by the final day of John Paul's visit it was clear why. At a prayer service in the city's beautiful basilica he coughed--not continuously, but so deeply that his body jumped forward slightly. His speech, clear enough at a youth rally the night before to elicit roars of laughter, was more slurred. A short prayer he should have spoken was assumed by an assistant...
Drogin also said she finds she is mostcomfortable with being able to skip questions andanswer them later, which cannot be done on thecomputer-based test. The elimination of thepaper-based option for the GRE may hurt somestudents' test scores, she said...
...Members -- and the nation -- will get to see and hear Lewinsky tell her story, familiar though it may be. Will it change any minds? Doubtful. That point was driven home by Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who followed his defeat on the videotapes with another one: A symbolic effort to skip right to closing arguments, which lost along strict party lines. But even as their party split on the Lewinsky question, Republicans scored a small victory when nine Democrats deserted the White House to vote for the screening of the tapes. Licking its wounds, the White House then asked...
Harvard had its chances to assert itself in thegame. Three second-period power plays resulted injust three shots on net. Sophomore forward SteveMoore saw two glorious rebounds with a wide opennet skip through his skates. His linemate,sophomore Chris Bala, was robbed on a first-periodbreakaway by Braun and also missed just wide fromthe low slot at 14:05 of the second...